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- Comment on French court blocks Google project to limit news content in searches 2 days ago:
If those sites think that being linked to is a service they’re providing Google (which demanding payment implies), then Google is just fulfilling their wishes.
- Comment on Oopsies 4 days ago:
It’s a decent book overall. If you’re interested in the theory behind choice architecture it’s worth a read.
But yeah, read it a couple months ago and remembered it specifically addressed this question.
- Comment on Oopsies 5 days ago:
In fact, the truth is surprisingly simple: much depends merely on what happens if people don’t make a decision, something called a no-action default, or simply a default. The countries on the left of the graph ask you to choose to be an organ donor, and those on the right ask you to choose not to be a donor. If you do not make an active choice, you are, by default, a nondonor in Germany and a donor in Austria.
Dan and I wanted to understand this. We started by asking a sample of Americans whether they would be donors or not by presenting them with a choice on a webpage. One group, the opt-in condition, was told that they had just moved to a new state where the default was not to be an organ donor, and they were given a chance to change that status with a simple click of a mouse. A second group, the opt-out condition, saw an identical scenario, except the default was to be a donor. They could indicate that they did not want to be a donor with a mouse click. The third group was simply required to choose; they needed to check one box or the other to go on to the next page. This neutral ques-tion, with nothing prechecked, is a mandated-choice condi-tion; it’s important, because it shows what people do when they are forced to choose.
The effect of the default was remarkably strong: when they had to opt in, only 42 percent agreed to donate, but when they had to opt out, 82 percent agreed to donate. The most interesting result was from those forced to make a choice: 79 percent said they would be a donor, almost the same percentage of donors as in the opt-out condition. The only difference between the group that was asked to opt out and those who were forced to make a choice was that we forced the respondents in the mandated-choice condition to pick either box before they could go forward. It shows that if forced to make a choice, most participants would become donors. Otherwise, if they were given a default, most simply took it, whatever it was.
From Elements of Choice by Eric Johnson
It’s more complicated than the one example, and he covers it further, but as a rough guideline, it looks like forced choice and opt out are similar in this case. Which would make sense because the opposition is mostly religious and strict religious people are more motivated to opt out.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 6 days ago:
Magic damage felt spikier than other classes to me in Elden Ring, to the point early and mid-game where there were segments where I would run out of magic before getting through crowds even with all blue flasks.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 6 days ago:
Hogwarts Legacy. Combat is fast and brutal.
The side stuff feels kind of bland mechanically and something about the open world doesn’t capture me like I want it to, but it’s pretty good pure magic combat.
- Comment on Microsoft is struggling to get Windows Recall out the door — delays releasing first public preview. 2 weeks ago:
They disabled it by default after shipping it as a security nightmare in preview builds.
You can’t add security after the fact. If it isn’t built with security as a primary design goal months before you write a line of code, it will never be secure.
- Comment on PS5 Pro just got even more expensive as Sony admits these accessories won't work. 2 weeks ago:
The one with the regular PS5 is incredibly stable.
- Comment on PS5 Pro just got even more expensive as Sony admits these accessories won't work. 2 weeks ago:
Why would you think other covers were going to work?🤷🏼♀️
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
Don’t be pieces of shit and you won’t owe refunds.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
It runs with higher priveleges than you have and can see anything that happens on your computer.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
Adding kernel malware after the fact should entitle every single owner who requests one to a full refund no matter how long has passsed.
- Comment on Don’t fall for AI scams cloning cops’ voices, police warn 2 weeks ago:
lol what’s the benefit of AI exactly? I’m not going to know if some random caller sounds like a real cop.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It sure as hell looks like plenty of information on the offender to me.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 2 weeks ago:
I could see the appeal as open source, self hosted software.
Not from data vacuums.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
It’s not remotely within the realm of plausibility that Adam Altman genuinely believes any of the horseshit he spews. (And that’s ignoring that they gained their funding by lying about the core intent of their organization by pretending to be serving the public interest and not profiteering.)
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Opposing actual fraud isn’t what reactionary means.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Seriously, I’d love to be enthusiastic about it because it’s genuinely cool what you can do with math.
But the lies that are shoved in our faces are just so fucking much and so fucking egregious that it’s pretty much impossible.
And on top of that LLMs are hugely overshadowing actual interesting approaches for funding.
- Comment on After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft. 2 weeks ago:
Look at Pixar and other Disney CG stuff. Raytracing enhances stylized art just as much as photorealistic art. Something like Moana or Elemental is meaningfully enhanced by their work on water and glass transmission simulation.
- Comment on After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft. 2 weeks ago:
It’s just because newer games have too much to effectively ray trace, so they have to use it in a very limited manner.
Ray traced quake looks more like real video than a lot of those modern games do; it just looks like some kind of theme park/old theater costume type of deal where the costumes aren’t as good.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
So are 10 second videos.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
They don’t have to sell or provide videos to third parties, because they can just do it themselves.
That’s the nature of actual federation. It’s not private.
- Comment on X Payments delayed after Musk’s X weirdly withdrew application for NY license 3 weeks ago:
They rarely come onto the market with such a hugely toxic brand name. Big banks survive their bad shit through the inertia of having massive customer bases; they don’t enter the scene already known as a shitshow.
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says. 3 weeks ago:
It’s definitely douchey as hell to try to hurt your favorite restaurant’s chances of success just so you might have lower waits.
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think price is that big of a deal for a factory, really. The machine that worker in using probably costs a hell of a lot more than $3.5k, and in most cases even basic parts/repairs are going to cost that much.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 3 weeks ago:
As much as the idea is cool, that display is also horrendous for reading. I could absolutely see it as “good enough” for a lot of projects, but not an ereader. 400x300 isn’t enough.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
The weirdest part to me is thinking the timeless omnipotent god that the Bible explicitly says considers a thousand years less than nothing actually literally meant that he created everything in what we’d perceive as 7 days when talking to whatever arbitrary scribe wrote down the creation myth for him.
- Comment on Clevo reseller wants get coreboot ported, ends up throwing a temper tantrum and banning Germany, Texas and AMD over unsatisfactory experience 3 weeks ago:
lol at blacklisting AMD because one of their 25k employees politely decided you weren’t worth contracting with after you very probably went raving jackass on them.
- Comment on Judge delays order in antitrust case requiring Google to open up its app store 4 weeks ago:
I still don’t see how there’s a possible argument for making them actually distribute app stores, either.
Removing some of the (accurate) information that you need to trust an App Store to allow it to install and update apps, whatever. Limiting their ability to abuse their market dominance to control the behavior/hardware of hones that ship with them, great. But actually making them distribute content is wild.
- Comment on Judge delays order in antitrust case requiring Google to open up its app store 4 weeks ago:
Less than a month to make a massive software overhaul was an insane order.
It cannot be safely done without actual lead time.
- Comment on First Steam Deck plugin on Steam will bring GOG and Epic Games compatibility 5 weeks ago:
GOG is fine and probably won’t interfere, but a paid plug-in for Epic who very well might just arbitrarily break shit because they can seems like a bad idea.
